Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho

PostCrisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **Floex** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:52 am

London already boasts a café dedicated to breakfast cereals and a diner specialising in cheese toasties. Today it welcomes a new arrival — a Soho restaurant serving solely crisps and dips.

Like the other venues, Hipchips takes a specialist approach, sourcing unusual potato varieties from the Highland Burgundy to the Shetland Black. For drinks, it offers craft beers and wine.

Chef Scott Davies said: “Everyone likes crisps, but what you can get in the shops is fairly average. We are using the best ingredients to make a high-end product.

“We wanted to give people something a bit different — I don’t think there is anyone doing something like this in the country, or even the world.”

The restaurant, the brainchild of Mr Davies and businessman David Morris, follows on from the Cereal Killer café in Shoreditch and Melt Room, also in Soho. It serves the crisps with a range of dips, including Peruvian Ceviche — a salsa made from tomato, red onion, chilli, lime and coriander — and smoky cheese fondue. Some of its snacks are sweet, with Nutella praline, salted caramel and cheesecake dips.

Mr Davies, who has previously worked at Marylebone tapas restaurant Providores, said: “I’ve taken my inspiration for the sweet crisps from doughnuts by sprinkling them with cinnamon sugar as soon as they come out of the fryer. These with the dips really form a classic pairing, which we will change weekly and seasonally.”

A small box of crisps with two dips will cost £4.50, a medium box with three dips £6.75 and a large box with six dips £11.50.

The restaurant at 49 Old Compton Street, which does not take bookings, is open midday to 11pm from Monday to Thursday, to midnight on Friday and Saturday and to 10pm on Sundays.

This is a place I can guarantee GR will love*

*absolutely detest

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **Hexx** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:54 am

£4.50

See, I love crisps and would in theory have gone here. However, seeing the prices I will pass. Seems a nicer idea than stupid cereal bars as crisps are a good snack to grab and go, but nearly £5 for some crisps and dips? strawberry float that. Unless they are literally the best crisps ever created of course.

TLDR

Hipster shite.

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **Moggy** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:24 am

SandyCoin wrote:See, I love crisps and would in theory have gone here. However, seeing the prices I will pass. Seems a nicer idea than stupid cereal bars as crisps are a good snack to grab and go, but nearly £5 for some crisps and dips? strawberry float that. Unless they are literally the best crisps ever created of course.

Do you also get a blowjob with the chips? Might be worth the price then.

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **bear** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:28 am

It just sounds like a craft beer bar with a different set of snacks. Disgraceful stuff and I am outraged.

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **Lotus** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:29 am

Preezy wrote:Do you also get a blowjob with the chips? Might be worth the price then.

Wasn't there a blowjob cafe that was going to open? Or was that just a dream I had?

Lotus wrote:
Preezy wrote:Do you also get a blowjob with the chips? Might be worth the price then.

Wasn't there a blowjob cafe that was going to open? Or was that just a dream I had?

There was indeed.

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **Moggy** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:35 am

bear wrote:It just sounds like a craft beer bar with a set of snacks that you need a second mortgage in order to afford. Disgraceful stuff and I am outraged.

FTFY.

If you can get someone to part with £4.50 for a bag of crisps then you're doing something right. I'll stick to pickled onion Monster Munch.

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **bear** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:39 am

Moggy wrote:
bear wrote:It just sounds like a craft beer bar with a set of snacks that you need a second mortgage in order to afford. Disgraceful stuff and I am outraged.

FTFY.

Look at Mr. "I own my home " and his constant humblebragging. Second mortgage, I haven't even got one yet. You make me sick.

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **Hexx** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:46 am

Preezy wrote:Do you also get a blowjob with the chips? Might be worth the price then.

At £4.50??? :shock:

Oh Preezy you've had a boring unexciting life so far

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **Moggy** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:46 am

bear wrote:
Moggy wrote:
bear wrote:It just sounds like a craft beer bar with a set of snacks that you need a second mortgage in order to afford. Disgraceful stuff and I am outraged.

FTFY.

Look at Mr. "I own my home " and his constant humblebragging. Second mortgage, I haven't even got one yet. You make me sick.

The first mortgage was for the train fare to London.

Hexx wrote:
Preezy wrote:Do you also get a blowjob with the chips? Might be worth the price then.

At £4.50???

Oh Preezy you've had a boring unexciting life so far

Well I pay my wife £13 for one so chuck in the crisps and £4.50 is a good deal.

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **Hexx** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 12:07 pm

She only charges me £10.

Cheeky cow, knew she was ripping me off

PostRe: Crisp Shop Opens today in Soho by **That** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 1:30 pm

Preezy wrote::lol:

Cheeky cow, knew she was ripping me off

Maybe she charges by the minute?

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